University of Alabama at Birmingham
This study addresses critically ill sepsis patients' current literature reports of ongoing post-hospital discharge weakness and hospital readmissions. This study is aimed at capture and interpretation of a complex set of tests, administered during a subject's sepsis functional recovery trajectory, particularly capturing hospital readmission's effects on survivors' physical function recovery.
Patients with Sepsis who require ICU care, experience frequent weakness, physical dysfunction, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, poor memory, and mental morbidity that persists after hospital discharge. This syndromic pattern has been labeled as Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) or Post Sepsis Syndrome (PSS). These patients are at increased risk of rehospitalization (up to 40% at 6 months). Studies have pointed out that sepsis survivors recover within several different recovery patterns or trajectories. Unfortunately there are no objective biomarkers early in these patients' hospitalization…
Inclusion Criteria: * Sepsis requiring organ support in an ICU setting Exclusion Criteria: 1. inability to obtain informed consent 2. the attending physician reports that the patient's goals of care are transitioning to palliation/withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy 3. recent cancer therapy in the last 12 months 4. age \>80 5. plans to be discharged on mechanical ventilation to a Long Term Acute Care Hospital 6. planned discharge to rehabilitation facility, long-term hospital or nursing home. 7. Pregnancy
there is no intervention
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